The eighth edition of this essential resource covers new and completely up-to-date sociological teaching, with the latest research, empirical studies and theoretical developments, includes new Chapter 'Development and Globalisation'
Previous edition: 2008
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1024-1057) and index
Stratification, class and inequality -- Sex and gender -- 'Race', ethnicity and nationality -- Poverty, social exclusion and the welfare state -- Health, medicine and the body / by Stephen Moore -- Crime and deviance -- Religion -- Families, households and personal life -- Power, politics and the state -- Education -- Culture, socialisation and identity -- The mass media / by Steve Chapman -- Age and the life course -- Methodology -- Sociological theory